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Hello everybody. Welcome back. Where we talk about Korean people and culture, what's happening in Korea at the moment, social events, phenomenons, trends, K-pop, culture, entertainment, all of that. So, we have a lot of news to cover today. As you can see in the title, we're going to be talking about BTS in Mexico totally just dominating and conquering and being kings and having the most most I celebrated um yeah audience ever. It was very just it was just very touching to see the whole scene. But yeah, we're going to go through that. Uh but before we get into the hottest news, uh we will definitely uh dive into other stories as well, such as the magic pass drama that's happening. It's a very big issue in Korea, a controversy going on that went up to even the president. People are petitioning and people are fighting saying that it's dumb. You probably don't know what I'm talking about right now when I'm talking about a magic pass.
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Don't forget to like and subscribe before we go on. Yes. Um, yep. So, we have more than 100 people. I think it's safe to go on. So, we have a lot of fun topics today, as I told you. First on, we're going to go with the magic pass drama.
Give me some guesses what you think the magic pass drama is. Have you ever heard about a magic pass? We're not talking about Rain's magic stick here. Magic stick. That was a very dubious wording Rain used in his old song, but yeah.
What do you think a magic passes and what do you think the controversy occurring in Korea is about?
What did you get your mom for Mother's Day? I didn't get her anything. She said she wanted cash or she wanted my credit card. So, I was like, "All right, I'll give you my credit card." And uh she's deciding between buying a sofa or a robot uh vacuum cleaner. Yeah, those ones are really convenient nowadays. Um especially if you have furry dogs. Yeah.
with short hair. Uh for us it was Friday. Yes, it's May 8th, parents day.
Yes, today is Mother's Day in Mexico.
Okay, that's great. Hope you uh give them give your mom a good hug, some presents or a nice meal or whatever. Uh say that you love her. Uh parents day was Friday. Yes, your mom wanted pancakes. Oh, that's cute. Yeah, make sure you get give her some pancakes.
Okay. Okay, let's go on into the first news of today.
All right, so what is the magic pass drama?
So, speaking of parents day, not long ago was actually children's day. You know, like in Korea, May 5th is Children's Day. And on Children's Day, one of the most hottest spots, uh, popular spots in Seoul is obviously this place, Lorld World. I'm pretty sure if you've visited Seoul, uh, you might have seen this place near the Chamu L World Tower. Uh I don't know like if it's an amusement park is not everybody's cup of tea and it's also very expensive and it's L world is a cute you know kind of small amusement park in the middle of soul well that is something to uh actually consider uh positively but in terms of comparison to Everland or Disney World Disneyland Universal Studios whatever it's a very minisized studio yeah it's like a a popular date spot for a lot of Korean couples um to go to and dress in school uniforms, take pictures just for a little picnic and stuff, right? So, yeah. Um Oh, okay.
Joyful one has been there. It's over stimulating. It is. Yes, it is. All right. So, on parents on children's day, what happened? What is this magic past thing? So, a mother's online post actually went viral on parent on children's day. Oh, you guys messed me up with the parents day thing. Yeah, on children's day. All right. So, this mother put up a post especially about this magic pass thingy. Um, so basically a magic pass is it's like this. I don't know. You probably have your own versions in Disney World or something.
It's like the the speed pass or the priority or you have your own words for it. Uh premium. Um I've paid it before at Universal Studios when I was in LA was it? Yeah. Uh and basically what it does is you pay a premium probably like I don't know how much it is quite honestly. Sorry for the bad research but probably around maybe 80 bucks or more than that. Actually, let me check it out. How much is a magic pass?
So, okay, it's not that bad. Yeah, I was on I was on point. So, um yeah, there are a number of rides you can use with the magic pass. So, you got the light version, uh standard standard B, premium version. So uh according to each version and tier you can use like five times or 10 times or uh unlimited blah blah blah.
And the highest highest tier is actually like 80,0001. So that would translate into maybe 65 to $70. That's not too bad for amusement park, right? But we're talking about Loe World over here. So yeah, don't expect too much. Uh yeah.
Anyways, that that's not too bad like compared to Disney, you know? But then it's also Disney. So going back. Going back. Um. Yeah. Going back. Uh, so you can pass by the long lines. Exactly.
That's what the magic pass is. It's the Disney fastass. Exactly. Thank you for uh teaching me the equivalent uh word.
Exactly. It's the Disney fastass. But this has become a societal controversy currently in Korea. Why? You might be wondering what the hell. So this image is generated with AI um and it basically shows the situation in a nutshell. So, you see you see this person over here. There's the parent and the child. And the child's pointing at this line, the magic pass line. And she's like she's uh he's saying like, "Mommy, mommy, why are we all waiting in this sweaty line for 2 hours when those people are just walting through with nobody and they're even getting on the the the roller coaster faster than us?
What's happening? Mommy, I'm tired."
Right? So this was what happened. So basically what happened is um this online post from a mom. She described standing in a sweltering threehour line with her child only to watch families with magic passes breeze past them. And yes, as I said, her child actually heartbreakingly asked, "Mom, why are those people cutting in line?" And then the mother posted a viral complaint about families using the magic pass to skip these hour-long lines to the president. And her argument was that in a space for children, money should not be able to buy time. She felt powerless of having to teach the cold reality of capitalism, capitalism to her child, even in a space like an amusement park.
Isn't capitalism just enough for our us at us adults in our harsh reality in our society? And at the end, she actually petitioned to President Ejimyong to ban the priority entry systems altogether.
So basically to this mom this line in an amusement park was the ultimate social contract and it's a symbol of a pure you know unadulterated fairness uh where everyone is just equal regardless of their bank account and I don't know what you guys think about this so I am going to tell you the Korean sentiment around this going on the discourse but let me get a quick check of what you guys think in the chat. Uh, so because everyone is getting magic pass and therefore making it redundant. No, celebrities can't even have magic pass at airports anymore.
Okay, maybe. Complain complain. Well, that's capitalism for you folks. Yes.
Um, mom should have got the magic pass.
Well, the point is she's saying like, yeah, we're not wealthy enough or we're in not a good financial situation in order to, you know, afford a magic pass and it's saddening, right? Uh, money does buy time everywhere sadly. It's a business. They're running a business, like it or not. Uh, I like that. So, yeah, you guys have your own opinions here, right?
However, so after this post went viral, it was all over the place. It was on the news. It was on threads, Instagram.
Everyone started jumping on it because it's quite hilarious if you think about it. It's I think it's personally ridiculous. But like leaving aside my thoughts for a while, looking at the Korean sentiment, they basically agree with me. Yeah. A lot of people when they saw this going viral, uh, people were just saying capitalism is capitalism. It isn't a crime. It's a business. And it was brutally unsympathetic to this person. Uh and they were, you know, criticizing this mom for being uh in an emotional person that doesn't understand the brutal reality of capitalism in our society itself. And online communities erupted with comments uh defending market principles. And if you look at scroll down through like the most upvoted comments, you can see some hilarious ones. Well, I know a place where it sounds like your utopia, where you would like to be.
This man up on the north thinks similar to you. If you want absolute equality, you can just cross the DMZ and go up north, right? He he's a master of uh he's a he's a master of distributing corn and they love lines up there, right? Nobody gets to cut in line. You can't pay a fast pass. You probably can.
But anyways, on the surface level, yeah, if you like it so much, you can simply just go up there. Yeah.
So, that was one of the most upvoted comments. Another user wrote, "Okay, well, with your logic, I guess we should ban business class on planes, too."
Yeah. Oh, since it's so demoralizing, we always have to walk the hall of shame.
us economy folks like you know when we're entering the plane the the rich guys are all just like uh flexing their legs and getting wine and champagne and the flight attendants are smiling at them while we have to sit in chicken hen cages uh for a 15-hour flight blah blah blah blah so people are like yeah capitalism is just capitalism you know just suck it up um it's a business um and yeah you got to teach that to your kid, right? So, I mean, Korean people can be pretty harsh in their comments. Uh, but I feel her point. It's that it's kids. Yeah, I know. Yeah, that is pretty rough. It's sad that you're a kid in heaven and it's your it's in your face that Yeah. Uh, children should not feel that some kids are better than them. It is very sad for the kids.
However, I if I mean I'm not a parent yet, but if that kind of moment were to occur to me, I would teach my kid a lesson saying unfortunately I am sorry.
This is how society works. And uh yeah, I love you. That's what's important. And I work hard to get you guys like assuming I have a child, a daughter, and a son. I I work hard uh to feed you guys, to, you know, bring you to amusement parks, uh help your mom, blah blah blah blah. And uh this is what we can afford right now, but hopefully in the future, you can find whatever you're good at and earn a lot of money and uh provide that to your kids or, you know, you could you could teach how society works in a in a good way. I I guess that's very easier said than done. And al of course I don't have any parenting experience. So I'm just like yeah hypothesizing over here. But yes um with that logic just get rid of all the nice things and have everyone be basic for everyone. Exactly. Like even on YouTube I mean I don't know if you can compare it but I use YouTube Premium because I want to skip in line. I just don't want to watch those ads. So, I I pay a $10 premium every single month to Yeah. just get rid of that inconvenience. Isn't it like pretty much the same thing of amusement parks, right? So, I don't want to sweat in the sun for two hours and my time is precious. So rather than wasting that time and being all uncomfortable and, you know, having to listen to my kids whine and complain at me, I just buy a a surplus of like I I just buy like a premium $50 pass and just, you know, Yeah. get them on the roller coasters and uh have an ice cream for myself.
Yes. Um this can be all summed up as it doesn't matter whether you're born rich or poor.
It's what you do with the cards you have been dealt in life. Sorry, not sorry.
Life is not fair. Deal with it. Dad, David seems strict. Unfortunately, I'm I think I'm going to be pretty strict. I'm a T rather than an F. I'm not a feeler.
I'm a more of a rational kind of person.
So, yeah, capitalism is capitalism, which is why you have to pay so much to uh get into the park. Requiring more money to get on a ride faster is just greed. Okay, you can think like that.
You have to teach the kid how to wait or it will grow up to become uh be a problem adult. Yes. Way I see it, you shouldn't really pass on money to children that don't earn any of it. Oh, I love that. I love that. Just because you earn money doesn't mean your kids are rich. Yes. Okay. Oh, wow. Oh, this is a heated debate in the chat today. I love it. Okay. I would love to uh read all your comments. Um let's be honest, the kid is just excited to be there.
Doubt he was the one that brought in the equ inequality of this is situation.
Yes. Um I pay for YouTube premium too.
Money well spent. A matter of priorities. What you spend your money on. Exactly. Mhm.
Many lessons to be learned. Uh yeah, an Indian parent slash my parents would have probably said to me to study to get a good job to earn more money. Exactly.
My parents would have said the same thing. Yeah. But anyways, we have a lot to cover with this uh right now. So to proceed on um so you saw some comments like get rid of first class on planes or whatsoever. Um, so yeah, I mean to the public, the magic pass isn't something unjust. It isn't cheating. It's something not unfair. Uh, it's just a legitim legitimate purchase of a service itself. So yeah, the backlash suggests that the mother wasn't fighting for fairness, but rather is suffering from a mix of envy and a refusal to acknowledge how a market economy functions. And this could be a very slippery slope once you start petitioning it to the president and politicians actually, you know, yeah, give power to these voices.
Personally, that's my opinion. Um, but anyways, um, this leads to a bigger conversation and discussion in our society. Uh, it's been a pretty trendy word. I hate to say the word trendy, but it's been overused.
It's been very popular for a couple years now in Korea. It's called uh that means relative deprivation. It's a very popular social term that started suddenly from like the 2010s or something. Uh and yeah, it didn't come out of nowhere. you know, it it had a valid emotional response to a real widening wealth gap that's happening in all uh capitalistic societies now as we process more towards proceed more towards like latestage capitalism. Well, the wealth gap is a big problem. So, I wouldn't say it's like a silly uh term or anything. You know, people feel relatively deprived. Um, yeah. So, like it's one thing to read about like a celebrity in a 10 billion1 penthouse. Like that's like a long distance from you, but you know, it is a different world, but it's also another thing to see a friend or a peer or, you know, someone around you maxing out on loans and buying this house and you see it quadruple in value over five years.
So, you're just here. You're working hard. You are a diligent worker. You're a good mannered citizen in society and you're being you're doing what the society has been telling you to do like be diligent, go get a job, uh feed, you know, feed yourself or your family, blah blah blah. But instead, this other guy maxed out his loans and he got a house and he was paying interest, high interest and whatever. But in 5 years, his net worth has become 100k to 500k.
while my net worth is like in five years it's become like 150k because I had expenses I had other stuff to do blah blah blah blah right so you feel that feeling oh my gosh you know in retrospect and you look at your friend who got that apartment now and yeah net worth has quadrupled 5xed and he's suddenly he's suddenly buying German cars um and yeah and on top of that what makes it even worse is like if you if you look at this picture, there's the concept of the gold spoon and dirt spoon, right? So, if that person had an inheritance or they come from a a relatively wealthier family background, they already have a head start. So, you're like, you know, you always before you go to bed, you roll up in your bed in inside your blankets and you cry secretly saying, "Why am I so unlucky?
Uh why did I get born in this family?
why don't I have the money to invest or blah blah blah blah blah, right? And then you look on social media and you see friends going on first class flights to uh Bali or something and they're on the beach side while you have to go to work tomorrow, right? So everybody feels this. So this relative uh deprivation I think it's a universal thing but it's just more accelerated uh in Korea, right? So, everybody's just been using this term uh forever over here. There have been caricatures or these kind of animations being made. The rich, they seem like they're on the same starting line. That's what they tell you. But like, no matter how hard you work and get your diplomas and whatever, you have to carry the burden of your parents' debts, too. And while these people are riding in Mercedes and yeah, of course you're on the same starting line, but they have an engine and gasoline and you have to carry the load of your parents as well too. So anyways, yes. Uh yeah, it is definitely a problem. It is definitely a problem. So yeah, um there have been a lot of examples in this in Korea uh that really just boosted this term relative deprivation. Um, and I think, you know, I don't want to get into political territories, but like I'm just talking in a neutral stance over here, right? So, I think the biggest um case that just, you know, made this term super super popular was uh this professor slashn now politician named Chuk. Uh he was then back he was from the Democratic party a liberal and um yeah liberals are usually against you know like inequality and you know the rich getting richer and uh they want to disperse the uh the the social uh what do you call them like capital and all that. So yeah, however, this person was on the on the liberal side, the right side, and it was a huge conflict back then because um he was also a professor in law at Saul University. He was a very uh respected professor in law as well. So he's a law professor. He's very influential in the political side of the liberal and democratic side. And upon a hearing, upon uh yeah, like him being he he he was trying to become a politician because he was selected by the then president or something and then you have to go through hearings, right?
You have to go through these investigations whether you're clean or not. It was revealed that he had actually wielded he had actually used his authority as a professor and uh more than a middleclass family uh he used his capital to give privilege to his daughter during university entry exams and admission.
So yeah, at the end uh her daughter uh his daughter entered into med school uh one of the biggest med schools in Korea and because of this trial uh they found out that the admission procedure was unfair and there was a lot of privilege given towards her. Uh the parents meaning this professor and uh his wife was also a professor too.
Uh they had baked um achievements like on her resume on her what do you call it portfolio that she did this experience and that experience and then she did like you know this kind of volunteer work she did some kind of activities in this company and quite honestly normal people that don't have the connections or the authority or the power to do that you know don't really have the strings to do those kind of things and add it to your portfolio, right? So, yeah, a lot of people felt very betrayed and of course the conservatives were like laughing and they were saying like, "Oh, look at that hypocrite." And uh yeah, in this case the wordam relative deprivation popped up a lot in our society and everybody just started using it one after another. Yes. And it was a huge case especially because education is taken so seriously in Korea and that's why we can't easily change the uh entry exam for uh universities like Sunnong like Sunnong as stupid it might seem to me I always my personal stance is that it's a memory it's a short-term memory exam it requires you to memorize stupid stuff that are unpragma impra unpragmatic IC impractical in your life. Uh unless you're going to become a rocket scientist, I don't know why you have to do these equations and these math whatever problems and yeah like basic uh like and the fact that this exam um based on scores gets you into good universities which propels you to getting good jobs in society. Of course, people can say that it's a fight of consistency, diligence, uh, grit, and also memory, intelligence, IQ, whatever.
They can argue all of that. But to me, it just didn't make sense because like there aren't any aptitude tests. You're just like putting people uh in Excel sheets and numbers, like lining them up.
Um, and they're just choosing departments and majors based on those scores. So, to me, it didn't really make sense. But after hearing all these sides and debates about you know these other special conditions admission uh entries to get into college and stuff people have been arguing well if it's not this system it it won't be fair you know this is the fairest thing and it's the fairest shot uh that people have you know we have good public education of course there aremies so I don't know if we can call it entirely fair but at least we have good public education systems we have a lot of materials that the kids can work with. So if they work hard enough and they can get good scores then they can be seen on an equal level uh playing field playing field and they can challenge you know maybe the rich.
Uh however on the contrary where I stand there's another admission uh kind of type where they look at portfolios your activities volunteer work or uh your uh your circle activities during high school uh what you were good at um blah blah blah. So some person might be very good at English. Uh this person might have been very you know active in um you know English debate clubs or some person might have been very good at you know volunteer work and has done it consistently for five years during middle school and high school going to underprivileged areas and taking care of kids. So that could lead to social welfare jobs. And I believe, you know, like in middle school and high school, kids should be able to explore that kind of uh aptitude and what they like and what their talent is and base like university entries or the decision to even go to university or not based on those kind of things. However, a lot of people say, well, those things can be rigged and they can be, you know, uh bought and they can be really easily swayed by connections. It's very unfair.
So, uh just like this incident with the law professor and the politician, um yeah, people up there are going to use their authority to get all the good stuff and we can't compete against these people in those kind of admission uh formats. So, that has a point to anyways. Yeah, I kind of tangented into another realm here, but the education sector is seen very very uh seriously here. That's why everyone just decided, okay, let's just go with the sunn, the SAT. Like, yeah, that's the fairest way if you think about it. But anyways, yeah, uh, ever since that incident, the word relative deprivation has, uh, become super super popular and it's become used in many many various terms, uh, describing this disparity and the feeling you get when your uh, neighbors or your friends or relatives buy apartments because housing prices is a huge problem in Korea as well too. If you look at this picture, you can see the drastic difference between this line here over here and the newly built apartments over here. You can see the the little residences that are very crammed up together and you can see the high-rise apartments that just definitely look more modern and good infrastructure and all that. So yeah, like if you're a person that's living from this side looking towards the apartment, wouldn't you feel this relative sense of deprivation, right?
So yeah. Um anyways I I guess the problem is like you see these kind of cases more and more frequently and whether you have some you know shifts in society there's like the housing market bubble or the real estate just keeps on skyrocketing or there's the crypto boom like Bitcoin and there's like uh social media and news outlets just rubbing it in your face every single day. um and you're the one that missed out on that opportunity and it feels like everyone else is getting rich other than yourself. You you feel deprived relatively, right? And you're just living a normal life, but you feel powerless. And yeah, like if you count your blessings, you're living a perfectly good life, but compared to some people that have successfully hopped on some of the rides, then yeah, you feel yeah, left out, right? And um yes, however, however, going back to today's incident and case, the magic pass for the L world thing, you remember, right? Just to remind you, I'll show you the picture over here. So, my personal opinion is okay, contextwise, the relative deprivation, that word is a valid word.
It's a valid phenomenon where it's universal and people feel because of the wealth gap and the wealth disparity.
However, I think carefully that it's somewhat reached a saturation point. Like just like we see with this incident with the mom at the amusement park, like everyone's been overusing and abusing this deprivation mentality and it's become the default now to a lot of people and it's risking the country's mentality that's built on grit, especially for Korea.
And it's kind of paralyzing uh the competition, the healthy competition that's going on by and exchanging it with resentment towards each other. And it's like, oh, why does he have get to do that when I'm just doing this? Well, you never know. He might have tried harder or he might have earned it or anything, right? Or he might have been privileged. That's a fair point. But anyways, yeah, like life is not fair, right? But if you start just explaining and complaining about everything with this mindset, society can't move on in a progressive manner.
And um yeah, like because of this kind of ma mindset, if it becomes proliferated, it creates stagnation in my opinion. So it's a very tricky double-edged sword. And while I I constantly emphasize that it is a valid concern and emotion and I feel it too as a human being. You know, I I would say that I'm rel I I'm an objective kind of person. So I count my blessings and I feel like I'm blessed. I'm privileged. I have a house. I have a loving family. I have good income. Um and so I'm very thankful with my life. However, if you start comparing to other people like my friends who are more successful than me, the the CEOs or the uh the business owners that I meet on a daily basis, they're way well off than me. If you look on the internet right now, the Cosby boom, the stock market boom is creating multi-millionaires, right? Like it never ends. So, yeah, I wouldn't be the best example.
Uh but like someone that is, you know, in poverty or, you know, that is struggling when they look up to people that are spending thousands of dollars on on Pokemon cards or feeding their dogs more expensive food than your daily food budget, then I definitely get the feeling. But it can't be you can't always just stay in that mentality and always point fingers. Oh, it's because of unfairness in society. Why does he get to do that? like money shouldn't be able to buy everything and blah blah blah blah. I think it's come to a point where you know yeah where the validity and the abusing uh the overusage has like kind of met at like a a crossing point. So yeah um you know some people think that it's becoming a social disease to this point and you got to see the context of it. So obviously social media triggered uh this whole sentiment like a wildfire in our society. So if you look at these kind of uh cartoons, they always display social media people, you know, just scrolling through Instagram before they go to sleep. They see their friends having pretty faces, wearing Prada and Chanel bags, going to buffets, going on trips with their friends at the beaches, flying first class, getting accepted to Soul University. So all these kind of things give you that feeling of deprivation.
And there was a survey over here. Have you ever felt relative deprivation in an acquaintance's life on social media? 62% of the total felt it. I don't even know why they had to actually do this survey.
I think it's pretty obvious. By gender, females have uh felt it even more than males. 76.5% males have felt it almost half. And yeah, I think it's pretty inevitable. If you look at more statistics over here, groups that cause a sense of relative deprivation, um wealthy parents of acquaintances, uh acquaintances that have wealthy parents, well-known conglomerate executives. I really I don't I never felt uh relative deprivation towards chbles like they're living in a different world. I've always like accepted my reality in that highinccome celebrities. Sometimes when I see like these articles saying like IU bought a $10 million house in wherever in a luxury villa GD's got that penthouse with a luxury car storage and blah blah blah. When I hear when I see those kind of things sometimes I'm like, "Yeah, life must be good." And uh yeah, of course they're talented and they're really like lucky to do that, but like, "Oh, what if I were like, "Oh, yeah." Is it, you know, sometimes you look at uh TV broadcast shows and reality shows or whatever and you see the uh the celebrities that appear there and all they do is just eat stuff and travel together and they're just laughing with each other. And then there's an article saying that that particular celebrity earns like 30k per appearance while you're while you're like grinding your ass off for the whole year and you you earn the equivalent of that. Like that's when you feel very deprived sometimes towards celebrities. But I would say even for celebrities, I don't really feel that much. But then there's also hi this is the worst high earners among acquaintances when it comes when it comes to the similar playing field of acquaintances then it's like oh your friend uh your mom's your mom's friend's son or something like that or highinccome professionals company representatives all that and influencers yeah you definitely feel that kind of sense right yeah so anyways Uh, social media is a whole other ballgame. It's about comparison and encouraging people to feel deprived if you choose to buy into it. I don't think it's a matter of buying into it anymore.
Social media has just been carved into our society so much that it's even just almost impossible to live without it because it just serves you information.
You get all the knowledge in the world from social media or YouTube and you stay connected to your friends through that. Uh you do business through it. So we have no choice but to use these monopolized social media platforms and because they are designed to you know stir up your emotions about deprivation and comparison. It's inevitable. Yeah.
And nowadays, in the old days, you could avoid that by restricting your follower uh list, but nowadays they just feed you with random stuff by the algorithm, right?
Uh yeah. Oh, thank you so much, Booty Cream Cheese, for the 10 jewels. Wow.
Thank you so much for that. Um I don't think the Magic Pass can be considered relative deprivation. The family is still enjoying the park. They just aren't enjoying it as much. Well, the story becomes different when it's summer. It's like 25°.
That's actually not bad. 30° and you're sweating like hell and you've been uh in the line for two hours and your two kids have been crying and they're complaining that they're hot and they're asking you to like hold them uh hold them on your backs and the other parent and the other kids are licking ice cream and just walting just through past you. And uh your kids complain about that too. And then you end up only be able being able to ride two roller coasters for the entirety of your stay at the amusement park and you go home tired, right? So I I understand it to some part. Yeah.
Uh yes, social media is meant to show the good parts of your life. Rarely do you use it to share the bad things. And even if you do, people will just judge you for it.
Better to talk to a close friend. Yeah.
Um, okay. So, yeah, don't believe everything on social media. Anyways, there's another phenomenon. I I covered this in one of the old KPC lies, but it's very similar to the words relative deprivation.
It's called Goji. This is an AI generated uh picture I made. So the this is a this is a homeless person. Um he's a beggar on the streets. He's a very famous meme in Korea. And pur means lightning. So pak koji means sudden poverty. If you translate it or if you translate it literally it's like you fall down to a beggar's level at the speed of light. So you're struck by a lightning of poverty, something like that. So yeah, this has been another term that's been going on in Korea and people feel poor simply because they didn't catch the right investment wave. Uh they're, you know, uh they start complaining to the government about it, that the policy was a failure. Uh similar voices occur recently about the stock market nowadays. Everyone's whispering about how much they earned on the stock market. The news is going crazy. Cosbyas is at an all-time high. And uh people are even criticizing the government. I can't believe this. Honestly, I'm going to get a little political here, but EJong, the president Lee had ma made so much changes and shifts in the uh in the stock market. Plus, we had a tailwind of the Samsung and SKH Heinix uh semiconductor super cycle that I mentioned last time. So, the president said that if we resolve the Korea discount and put more regulations and transparency and more promotion towards the stock market, we could get out of that CSP box of 2,000 to 3,000 for like 10 years and we could go up to 5,000.
and his policy, his promise was 5,000.
Now we're at 7,384.
And you can see everyone's like freaking happy. But one side of the nation, some people are buttth hurt because they're saying towards the president, "Oh, the government shouldn't be fostering a gambling field, aka the stock market."
And normal people with little money don't really have the chances to get rich anyways through investing compared to people that already have a lot of money. Uh so yeah, all you're doing is just making people more more uh feel more self-deprived.
Um yeah, so I think that's actually BS, you know. Uh I know a lot of people around me that are not very wealthy, but they saved up a lot and they saw this trend coming. They put a lot of money into the stock market recently and they've earned thousands to even tens of thousands of dollars and they're really happy with it and the economy is pretty much booming.
Um, some people might say that the real economy uh like the grocery prices or the living cost or the oil prices are in a difficult position right now which I agree to some extent. However, uh the fact that the financial markets are reacting at least good, it's going to it's going to trickle down. Uh when companies like Samsung, SK, LG, they're all doing good. They're going to be more jobs. There going to be more productivity. There going to be more consumption in our country, more exports, blah blah blah blah blah. So, I think all in all, it's definitely good uh that the stock market is going crazy right now and it's going up. Of course, there's going to be a correction and a lot of people are going to lose a lot of money there. So, people need to be careful, not greedy, but that's individual choice. Anyways, anyways, um yeah, we were talking about the pyoji, the lightning beggar phenomenon. Uh and a lot of people are feeling that feeling right now because how the Korean stock market is re reacting. Uh quite frankly, even though I've made a lot of earnings on this wave, I feel like if you see those receipts on online communities where people are earning millions from the stock market, I feel deprived as well, too. I'm like, "Oh, [ __ ] I I made chump change." But yeah, I'm object I'm an objective objective person that knows how to count my blessings. So, I'm going to be very thankful and appreciative towards Yes. this uh yeah but anyways um going back so this is a very inspirational picture I think it's a very accurate picture so equality versus equity versus reality so a lot of people say you know equal just blindfolded equality isn't always the solution so there are different people in different situations there are underprivileged people there or disabled people uh all sorts all sorts of different uh people in our societies just so just giving them the same uh starting line or the same infrastructure is just not enough.
So you should go for a more you know equity type of um policy. But then in reality it's neither of those nor it's neither of equality nor equity. It's actually like on the top the the the furthest right side reality. Yeah. The poorest person doesn't get anything and the richest person gets like the first class seat. So yeah, this is a this is a famous cartoon pick that always pops up related to these kind of um uh discussions. Yeah, you just noted the you just noticed the kid in the pit, right? So sad. But that is actually reality. So ideally the second frame we're looking at would be the best way to go but unfortunately I think uh every capitalistic society including the US including Korea is very close to the reality frame we've looked there. Yeah.
But um anyways, what I wanted to say is, you know, there needs to be a balanced voicing and opinion about these terms like relative deprivation and struck by the poverty lightning. you know there I think fundamentally unless you know wealth was inherited to someone if you're living in at least a first world country or a country that provides safety and like a an a at least a equal level of public education you know like I'm talking about countries that have you know a safety net or something like that and people might be very sarcastic and say like oh that Well, the US is not there. Oh, Korea is not there. Uh, oh, my country is not like that. But anyways, like by the book, if you have some opportunities in life and you have the infrastructure and you have the education and you have a some sort of welfare, um, unless like someone gets a massive amount of wealth inherited to them. For the individuals that are just starting at zero, I I do think fundamentally during a person's lifetime there will be a differences difference in choices, directions, actions, behavior, uh educating oneself, mentality, and uh yeah, while someone spends $5 on Starbucks coffee every single morning, someone is going to invest that $5 every single day on the S&P 500 ETF or while someone decides to buy a 30K car because, you know, I want to be flashy or I I just want to go to the grocery more conveniently. I just want to get around conveniently. Someone is going to invest that 30K into something else and save up and use their healthy legs to go buy public transportation. So it all kind of compounds up and someone while someone's at their couch watching binge viewing anime and Netflix like me, someone is right now at the library studying I don't know whatever that might be good for them in the future. So yeah like everyone has their set of choices and their courses and the directions are all very different and your actions compound. So, I do think if everyone starts to say like, "Oh, his wealth was inherited." Or, "Oh, yeah, society shouldn't be like that because the rich tax or you know, uh, they're they're just wealthy, so they're buying everything." I mean that is a very popular and easy convenient logic but you also got to regard and consider uh maybe that person you're looking at really worked hard and really just sacrificed their own leisure or pleasures or convenience or their urges uh to get up there. You know, I know a lot of people around me that started from rags and nothing and they just yeah, they just didn't spend anything on um what normal people do. Like people usually say, "Oh, well, I'll spend this much because like, you know, I'm giving myself a reward for the week and they go to movie theaters and eat out restaurants, blah blah blah." I'm not saying you should be like a a a penny pincher or anything, but like there are people that make those decisions. And while some people decide to go to the academics field and become a professor or like some people want to go into the work field and become, you know, a regular employee at a conglomerate. Some people take enormous risks and they put their own money into building a restaurant or making a an online business or whatever which has a 90% of failing, right? And once it actually starts launching, they earn folds of money where what where the other people um you know choose their own direction.
So, I think it's unfair to just deem everybody is automatically rich and rich people are evil and that they're buying their way through everything and they're leaving everyone else deprived and it's very demoralizing.
I think, you know, while that is a valid concern, it should be balanced. Yeah.
When I saw this uh controversy, that was the first thought that hit me. you know, uh, more and more people like this are going to pop up, you know, that that's just how society is right right now nowadays. I feel her.
I I can relate to her. I I can feel her and I can feel the sadness.
But, you know, it's just how it is. And um yeah, you can't protest to the government say like, "Oh, let's all be equal and let's all come down to the same level because I don't want to see these people buying their way out. It's just unfair." That would be like the the first picture over there, right? So, I don't know.
Yeah. So, that's just my thoughts. You might have other thoughts. I think this can be even expanded into a very large uh discussion of ideology and uh systems and all that. And uh yeah, today we're not going to go that big, but yes, um there are a lot of wealthy people here in the US that look like your neighbor in a small town. And there are also people who spend their last dollar to drive a Mercedes but can't buy groceries. Exactly.
Uh but the reality is for the hardworking lower class it is almost impossible to move up no matter how hard you work now.
The rich are changing it to make it more difficult. Exactly. I understand that too. Yeah. And um yeah it it's becoming very tilted especially because it's all becoming a money game. Uh especially in the stock market and like how financially rigged the system is. Like if you look at hedge fund managers or the Wall Street guys, they play money games with other people's money and they pay their own sales bonuses and even if they lose money, they don't have to pay any uh consequences. And that money, the the funds they're actually playing with sometimes are from national pensions or, you know, police pensions or Yeah. some individual person's money or whatever. So yeah, money earns money.
But I think in times like this, uh people should start educating themselves even more about finance and that's the only way you can survive unfortunately. Well, Elon Musk says you won't be a you won't have to educate yourself with finance or anything or you won't have to work in the near future. You'll have basic un universal income uh because the AI productivity is going to go through the roof. So, no people will lose all their jobs, but it's the productivity is just going to be so cheap. the labor cost is going to be so cheap so that the government is going to tax the crazy rich AI companies and then you'll all get universal income and everyone's just going to be happy.
I I doubt that. You know, knowing human nature, I doubt that. But who am I to go against Elon's ideas? Um yeah, I don't know if UBI is going to actually work, but yeah.
Um, your actions control how your life will be. Work hard, play hard. Exactly.
David should be at the library is what I got from this. I actually think that a lot. You know, I actually think in the bed whenever I uh before I go to sleep, I scroll through Instagram uh reals and YouTube and look at stupid memes and reals and laugh and chuckle. And whenever I'm going to sleep, like thinking of those 30 minutes I spent on reals, I'm like, "Oh, dang." No, someone out there is spending this time probably at the gym lifting uh weights or running or you know someone is studying the financial markets or someone is working for a master's degree or whatever and I'm here watching stupid AI slob [ __ ] before I go to sleep and I feel horrible about myself and then I go on social media for one last swipe. type. I'm like, I'm done with reals. Let's see what what's going on with the world and my friends. And someone's getting married today and someone bought a house and someone's on a trip and we're always trapped in that vicious cycle and that loop and you feel you end up feeling horrible and then wake up next day and you have to go to work and you're like, I feel like [ __ ] And then your conclusion is, you know what?
Life is unfair. It's all because the system is rigged. tax the rich. Why do they get to earn so much money? Says a person who was scrolling on reels 30 minutes last night chuckling on AI slop while these entrepreneurs were probably busting their asses uh when they were your age taking massive risks. Yeah. So, I don't know.
I'm depressed.
Yeah. Uh yes. Uh before we go on, let's lighten the mood a little bit. Yes, I was on uh a CNN series called K Everything. It's I think it's out now. I got the green light to promote it. So, it's actually an HBO HBO Max, CNN watch, and Kong Play original series where uh the Asian uh Korean-American actor Daniel Day Kim from Lost uh he appears as the host and he goes through Korea and experiences the food, the culture, uh his roots, K-pop. Uh, I appear there as a K-pop content creator slashexpert and I walk through him in a vinyl place and talk about K-pop history and whatever. I haven't seen the clips or the content yet, so I don't know how they've edited me. Uh, hopefully I didn't say anything stupid or against the narrative. But yeah, go check out K everything on CNN.
Yeah, go Yeah, go check it out.
Uh the government keep taking our working money while good and services prices rise with relief on site as we continue working on this hamster wheel.
Yeah. Yeah, I know. The system is rigged. You got to escape the system.
Holy [ __ ] Isn't this what Andrew Tate used to say? Escape the matrix.
Uh but yeah, like the government just take our taxes. They uh yeah, they use it in stupid places. Politicians just, you know, steal them and they have no consequences at all.
And there it's a huge problem in Korea, too. Like there's this thing going on.
There's a huge problem about festivals here. So all these regional uh districts, regional cities, they have their own festivals every single year. I this is probably the tip of the iceberg of all these financial problems and rigged systems but I'm just giving you a very uh a close case. So recently there was this YouTuber called Chungju man. Uh he used to be a civil service worker in the city of Chungju and he was just working on his basic income as a YouTuber to promote the city of Chungju for the city and uh he was super competent. So he got very very popular.
He got more than two million subs on a on a cityowned channel. That is a very very big achievement. So he basically quit being a civil service worker like I would too, you know, cuz like if he went freelance and private, he would earn like a hundred times of what he's uh been earning as a a civil servant. And yeah, he made a channel and he got one job. He got so many offers from all these big companies and they were lined up uh trying to pay him like in 100ks like 1 mil whatever and uh to make a video for them and one day he got a promotion from a different city uh it's called Yosu. It's a beautiful city. They once had an expo there. RM went there to go to a temple which I visited too. It's very very peaceful over there with the beach and the sea. And uh yeah, the city of Yosu asked him to make a promotion video of this upcoming island festival.
So apparently Yosu has an archipelago.
They have like little islands here and there and they're like in the hundreds or thousands and uh they're they want to make a festival out of it kind of like a exhibition or expo whatever those kind of things.
And uh yeah, his job was to promote that. So he got invited and he filmed all of that. But in his video, people could see he was very very sarcastic and salty when he was, you know, showing these places. He was like, "Oh, what's this? Oh, it's an empty field. Oh, wow.
It's an island with a lot of plastic just lying by on the coastline. Oh, wow.
It's one another one of those useless uh bronze statues and those cute mascots that nobody really appreciates and you give hundreds of dollars for design fees and he was like that for the whole uh video and it was barely a promotional video is almost like a more of an investigative report. So that really really went viral and uh yeah, everyone knew in Korea that our tax money was being spent in stupid places. But festivals like these like every city has their own Kimpop festival or mud festival or flower festival or island festival, Doki festival, all these festivals. And apparently the budget for this island festival was chir. So how much is that?
I I can't even translate that into English dollars because it's like amount of money I've never even tried translating. So 7,000 is chiron 70,000 is chanon.
700,000 is Chido.
7 million is Chishbo. $70 million.
$70 million for a island festival. And they have six months left and they haven't constructed the pl the infrastructure or the facilities there.
And yeah, it's become a huge uproar. And people in Korea are protesting and petitioning that we need a fullon excavation investigation towards these regional festivals that are probably sucking all our tax money and using it in stupid causes like these. And the politicians probably are Yeah. They're they're stealing from our pockets.
They're probably using construction companies or, you know, designers or whatever companies that are all colluded together and they get a cash back in behind as a Rolex or or gold bars or whatever and they evade taxes or they money launder it through crypto or send it to the V Virgin Islands or whatever.
Whereas us normies are are just paying taxes. So yeah, now you know what? I'm I'm angry towards the government.
Is there an ice cream festival? Yeah, probably there is. I wouldn't be surprised if I actually typed it right now and see like there's an ice cream festival. Let's actually see.
Oh, there we go. Yeah, we have an ice cream festival in the city of Okay, there you go. Yeah.
Anyways, uh Yosu, the one in the song. Exactly.
Yosua.
Yeah, that song.
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Oh, on on K everything. Yes.
Uh, you got to love when the truth comes out about where your tax money is being spent. Exactly.
All right.
Oh, it's been an hour. So, let's go on to the next news.
Yep.
So, you'll be surprised with this one.
But before we go on, since I'm going to put up the edited versions on KPC clips for those of you who joined later, uh I'm just letting you guys know that I have a separate channel now called KPC Clips where you can get the abstract versions of uh these streams and just reducing and cutting out all the fluff and the fillers. just getting straight to the point uh in eight eight to 10 minute videos on that channel. So go to KPC clips, go subscribe over there. And in the meantime, let me go get some ice cream, talk with you guys for like five minutes, and then proceed on to the next topic.
You you you struck uh you struck something in my brain mentioning the ice cream festival. It's your fault. So, I got my ice cream.
Lala sweet. Low sugar. Yeah, everything's low sugar. Zero sugar.
Zero calories.
It's blueberry. Was good, right?
So yeah, next topic is going to be about trends.
Why Koreans chase so many trends. I've always wondered myself too. I did some digging. Uh along with the most recent trend that is pretty stupid in my opinion. All these trends are so stupid.
BTS Purple Ice Cream.
I have my Army bomb there in the back with the Aidong album.
You've been relatively deprived of meeting David.
You aren't relatively deprived of meeting me because nobody in the chat has met me.
You thought it was a sweet potato flavor?
Respectfully, I would never eat a sweet potato tasted ice cream flavored ice cream.
David, have you been able to figure out how to come to the US for a BTS show?
Actually, I got so many emails from a lot of people saying that they would provide me a ticket. that itself I feel like I'm so blessed uh from the US from the UK but uh financially you know flying to the US and going to hotels and staying there and you know like eating out for probably a week or so if I were to go there is just a ve very big burden that I cannot afford right now.
By the way, the BTS foods are interesting. Have you got to try them yet? You mean the Audi AI series? No, I don't think they sell them in Korea.
It's blueberry.
Yum.
bro pulling in free tickets from random foreigners. I know, right? They're not random foreigners. They're my subscribers.
Hey, Donia, thank you so much for the $10 on PayPal.
Thank you so much. I need to think of Okay, this is a great opportunity.
I need to think of a new chant to uh yeah to thank my subscribers for sending donations. The old one was pizza pizza.
Nada is no longer the Korean pizza club.
What should I make it?
Blueberry yogurt ice cream is your favorite.
Me, too.
Popsicles in your fridge. Plum, orange, and mango. Oh, nice choices.
Butter, ramen. What? Really?
people. People makes sense because it was Korean pizza club. It was pizza pizza and now it's Korean people and culture. So people Oh, thank them in Korean. You are a genius.
I'll say, but then that's like too soulless. So what should I do?
Now all the cities have to match Mexico Energy for BTS tour. Yep. Going to be talking about that in a bit.
What's the weather like here? Um I think we're approaching summer. It's still kind of cool. It's perfect weather, not going to lie.
I went out in this hoodie today and I feel I felt amazing. It was perfect.
Yeah.
But I slowly feel the sun getting hotter and longer.
Hello from Romania. I'm watching the live from the beginning. I've just started watching it. All right. Hello.
Hello.
If you're watching 2x speed, maybe you can catch up.
Money, money. Oh, that's good. Money, money, money.
We're all just sitting here watching David eat ice cream. Well, you're talking to me, right?
Hey, Hilda, thank you so much for the 30 jewels.
You know what that is? Oh, if you're a 90s kid and you watch gag concert, you'll know what that is.
I need SJ with me right now. You know I do audio on radio. Oh, right. Let me show you this as well, too.
So, if you go to my channel, if you go to my channel over here, KPC with David Kim.
Oh, wow. I look like this doing a live right now. Okay. If you scroll down, I've added this new playlist at Audong Radio and News. So, this is SJ, the host of K Trend Monitoring Office, and I occasionally uh regularly be on these uh K culture news sessions as well, too.
So, I'm on Audong weekly and you guys, I know like the time zones are very tricky, so you can't really tune in. But yeah, I've started uploading all of them on this playlist on my channel. So, if you're interested in tuning in to the topics over here, yeah, you can check it out. Yeah. So, if you if you click on this, there's actually quite a lot of episodes.
It's It's radio format, so it might be a little bit more stiff than uh live streams obviously, but yeah, we got 41. Wow, I've been on radio for such a long time now.
Anyways, this week we talked about >> You're like, "Oh, I don't really want >> the What did we talk about?
>> Crazy, man." Uh, so one of our listeners, Forky, she's >> the MZ Generations Guide to Annual Leave. Yeah. Last time I was on >> the Kuang concert >> rain codes and meet a person.
>> We talked about the BTS >> waterproof windbreaker >> my experience there. Go check it out.
All right.
And thank you to the bard that gave me this idea. Yeah. He's like, "Why don't you archive your appearances on uh the media platforms on your YouTube channel?" I was like, "Yeah, that's a great idea. It's good for our subscribers, too."
Hilda, thank you for the 300 jewels.
Woo. Oh, this is a great way to do it.
It's the Korean finger heart.
If you want to support me, the best way to do is Patreon. Uh, I've launched a new perk for the $5 tier. So, you guys are going to be getting newsletters, uh, probably two per week.
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That ice cream was good.
I'm so happy because the ice cream was good.
Oh, must have been before the hive stocks dropped. Yeah, I'm in deep trouble, guys.
It's okay. It's going to go up.
Viva Mexico. Viva Mexico.
David, your Kdrama won Pexang award, Mr. Kim. Oh, really? Yeah, it definitely deserve the uh the award. Yeah, I only do noteworthy dramas. You know, there are a lot of good romance dramas and everything, but the ones I pick uh are worthy of social commentary and deeper stuff. So yeah, if you're in the $ five dollar tier, you also get access to the watch parties over here on Patreon. I did BTS return documentary. I'm late on the BTS Run series, but yeah, The Dream Life of Mr. Kim. I did all these as a watch party. I did Sline over here.
Yeah, go check out the watch parties as well, too.
Hello, Harleen.
We can't blame if people can afford the magic pass. This should be used as motivation to strive to work harder.
That's how I think as well too.
Yeah.
Okay. Okay, let's go on to the next topic.
Let's go on to the next topic.
This is going to be a fun one.
There we go.
Ready, guys? Ready for the second topic?
Okay.
All right. All right. So, what the second topic is about is the Republic of the Open Run. Why Koreans wait 15 hours for a cup of tea. Yeah. Can you believe that title? So, if you've walked through the streets of Shin Chong, Yongan, Kangnam lately, you've probably seen something that really looks like a protest or a massive celebrity fan meet.
But then you look closer and realize everyone is just waiting for milk tea.
And it's not just any tea. It's a brand called Chaji. Have you heard of that brand Cha before?
So if you look at the pictures over here, a week after opening, the lines are still wrapped around the blocks and an o on opening day in Shinchon, people were waiting 188 minutes. That's 3 hours, more than 3 hours. In Yongan, the app Q actually hit 951 minutes. Can you freaking believe that?
That is crazy for some milk tea. That's near 16 hours.
So you could fly to London and still have time to grab like a sandwich and the tea, an afternoon tea. And yeah, you could come back and Yeah. So anyways, well, welcome to the open run world in Korea. And open run is exactly what you think it sounds like. So yeah, you have that in the US as well too. I've seen you guys in Black Friday and in Walmart and stuff trying to get all the cheap electronics. But yeah, the moment the do the moment the doors unlock you sprint and it's grown some it's grown so much bigger than just an open run or a simple morning jog. It's now a full-blown cultural phenomenon. And yeah, Korea has become a country that just doesn't follow trends. We consume them with a a intensiveness to to the extent of waiting 951 minutes for milk tea. I would call that a little stupid. But anyways, for chaji, I've actually tried this before and it's quite ironic. I mean, I don't want to give that I'm better than everyone else kind of vibes, but it is true. You know, I was randomly roaming about in Singapore and I found a very nice looking place with like a cafe and it was a new brand that I didn't know about, but I recognized that place being here and there in like these big big fancy buildings. So, I was just like, "Yeah, let me try it out." I went up and it was like a milk tea place. A lot of people were there. Seemed very popular.
I bought a cup of milk tea. It was okay.
So, yeah, it's not my first chaji, so I would never line up for that. I'm better than everyone else. I'm not saying that.
But it was the same for five guys and stuff. Uh maybe this is coming from a privilege standpoint where I did have the opportunity to travel abroad so that I did have the opportunity to eat In-N-Out, Shake Shack, Five Guys, and Chaji and everything. Wow. Oh, so privileged, right? Imagine your life brag being I've tried Chaji and In and Out before.
Yeah. Sounds like massive FOMO. It's beyond stupid. Mhm.
Uh they just need to open more outlets and the cues will die down. Yeah, because all of us in London do afternoon tea every day. Would you like a cup of tea? Sorry.
Um, yeah. But anyways, what is so special about Chaji? So, when I tasted it, I didn't even know anything about it. And I was like, it's all right. It's milk tea. Yeah, it's good milk tea, right? So, why did everyone lose their minds over this Chaji brand? Well, probably because of this. A lot of news media outlets are saying that this was an amplifier. So, it wasn't a stranger brand to Korea. Months before the launch, Ives Changyong, the princess of Korea, the super visual of K-pop.
And she's the she is actually known as the human personification of trending in Korea. She's the trend icon. And she was spotted sipping sipping on it on a live stream. Yeah. So instantly it wasn't just a Chinese milk tea brand anymore.
It was labeled the Changyong milk tea.
So people started saying, "Oh, what is that? Oh, that cup looks pretty. Oh, what's she loving so much? Look at her expression over there saying like, "Wow, it's so good." You know, so Korea is a market where celebrity influence is actually the ultimate currency. And uh yeah, you might have noticed if you've ever visited Korea that you'll see billboards and advertisements plastered with K-pop idols, actors, actresses from Kdramas, all holding a bottle like this, something like that, or you know, eating some ice cream like this, or having some Pringles like this. And you know that's very lame marketing in my perspective.
But because Korea just glorifies visuals and idols and celebrities when Changyong is holding a cup of coffee it means a lot. And yeah when BTSV is holding Coca-Cola it means a lot right? So yeah that was the start of it. Ives Chongyong introduced it through her live stream and people it it wasn't like a recognizable brand back then back then and they did some research on it and apparently it was pretty popular in the Chinese uh region in Asia, right?
So yeah, that's how it all started and there was this funny post over here. If you go over here uh I'll translate it for you. Uh my experience visiting the Yongan Chaji. Uh number one, I think it would have been even better to just go to China back and forth. You can go to Terion uh in one hour by plane. So even even if I went to China round trip and got that tea and sipped that tea and came back, it would have been faster than lining up in Yongan.
That's true. That's very true. Number two, it says, "Oh, yeah. It's it the the tea leaves are very just rich and it has a very rich fragrance and it's very alive. So, yeah, please make a perfume out of it or something." And uh apparently the cake lineup was very good, too. The Earl Grey Katau Chakot was only $6 and the royal milk tea cake was only $6 as well, too. So, if you're curious, I don't know if you guys have chaji in your regions. Is it in America?
Have you ever been to a chaji before?
Um, but yeah, like if you're interested, you can go check it out. Um, last time I went, I just tried the milk tea and it was it was all right. Yeah, let me know what you think um about Chaji.
Uh, yeah.
What?
Okay. My favorite chaji drink is the Boya milk tea. Okay, I'll need to try that. China milk tea is better than Starbucks. Okay.
Um, let's see. Lining up three hours just for tea is near peak latestage capitalism.
Okay.
Uh, that's today's thumbnail right there. Changong. Yes.
Yeah, I don't know. I love Earl Grey. So good. I've never seen it in this boring village. Uh I haven't heard of them. I have chaji at least once a week. Yeah, apparently it's very famous in the Asian market. So, uh, yeah, as it's expanding overseas now, I would not be surprised if you'll be seeing some pop-ups here and there in LA or New York by this year or next year. Yeah. So, anyways, to look, uh, Changong started this whole chain reaction, but then who actually started it? Ironically, maybe Chaji wasn't uh didn't have that much budget, but they hired a different ambassador for their opening, which was from Edmix. I mean, she is a visual queen as well, too.
She's one of the Chaong Karina Yuna from ISI. Changu are the holy Bid what are you called? Trinity in fourth. Um they are the holy fornity of K-pop idol visuals and uh yeah she looks very pretty over here. Uh she's just celebrating the opening of the first Chachi brand in Korea. So yeah it was a big big festival.
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Not sure if I did right but uh I did this right but you could just claim is whenever you get a super chat or other daily affirmation. Yeah. Oh, that's very healthy. Yeah, you're winning every day.
That's a little bit too long. So, maybe I'll think of something that comes from out that. But thank you so much. Uh in Manila there are chaji too, but the libe line is not that long here unlike there in Korea. Yeah, I think it's going to die down soon. It's just like the hype.
I'm gonna explain something similar.
Apparently, there are some in California according to their website. Okay.
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Anyways, okay. To go on to go on.
So, at this point, it's not just about tea. Uh we see this with everything in Korea. Like remember the Dubai chewy cookies? Like the tuchonu? Yeah. Like that nightmare still lives on. Everyone was lining up for tuchonu and it's like pistachio cream toasted kad kadif and marshmallow all mashed together. It became a national obsession and people starting lining up for hours for this [ __ ] You know there were even like what do you call these announcements for duchonu lines. That's crazy. Um, and then apparently this bakery was reportedly making 2.5 billion1 per month just selling to t to junku. That's nearly $2 million just off this one trend. So I guess it pays off these trends, right? And then after tuchonu, everyone was getting tired of this freaking tuchonu. And then it turned into butter dou started in tongu and it's like this rice cake. It's stalk, right? It's chewy with this wa western baking technique uh merged into it to be crispy on the outside and elastic on the inside. And I've tried one of these. It's just I don't know. It tastes like chewy casta donuts or something like that.
Yeah. Anyways, but you can see like the uh shins department store or paris baguette. Everyone is just hopping onto the trend. Uh yeah, like Idia Coffee made their own line of butter duck and Dubai chewy cookies. So all these corporates are jumping onto these trends as well too. Um yeah, so we even had like Dubai chewy cookie maps being made as app services and there were like limits per person in line. they could only buy 10 pieces of tuchonu.
So yeah, once I was just walking in the Hanam region and I saw this poster saying, "Oh, we sell butter duck butter rice cakes." And I was curious. I was like, "Oh, okay." Like I'm I am not intentionally looking for butter duck or anything, but I've heard of the trend, and since there seems like there's no line over there, let me just go in and try it out. So, I went in eagerly to try out the butter tub. I asked the barista like, "Oh, can I get some butter tub?"
And she said, "Oh, it's all sold out.
Like, you can't come now and ask for it." It was like 300 p.m. And then she was like, "Yeah, people came at like 8:00 a.m. and they all it's all sold out." So, yeah, I underestimated the the Korean trend savvy people. Uh, but yeah, trends being mad in Korea. I'm telling you, this is like a firsthand experience. The cookie obsession is something I don't quite get. It can't be that good. It is not that good. It is not that good. Aloha from Au, Hawaii.
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How long does a trend last in Korea? So, a trend starts very fast. It blows up and everyone's just on to it for like I would say probably a month. A month is the window or a trend to start and it booms for like two to three weeks.
That's like its peak. All these magazines and all these Instagram accounts jump on it. The media jumps on it. They make it like a phenomenon.
Maybe it's because we're just such a safe society and there's no news. You know, it's a slow news society and there's nothing to be reported about. So people are just talking about butter duck and duchon. I don't know. But then after a month, people get tired of it because like initially though, I I do have to say disclaimer.
Um, Korean people aren't all dumb. A lot of people because I report about these things like these trends. People think, "Oh, they're so herd mentality. They're all sheep. They're like the pi piper rats just following them. They'll drive down them on a cliff and, you know, they'll die for all these trends and all that." People are not like that. Korea is actually a very intelligent nation.
and we make semiconductors and [ __ ] but yeah we are very highly educated but uh obviously it's a fraction of these people and also it becomes a trend and um it's just a very small country and very connected to each other and maybe you know people are looking for some new stimulation or whatever but I'm going to try to explain it culturally culturally as much as possible in the latter half of this piece But yeah, people a lot of people actually loathe this kind of behavior, including myself. If you look at every single Tongu or butter duck or uh what was it we're talking about?
Chaji milk tea article, you'll see all the comments are like low-life people, jobless. I would never do that. You know, I don't understand these people.
Aren't they embarrassed, ashamed of themselves? All of them say the same stuff. So even in Korea, what while the trend and the lining up is present, it's not the majority. Maybe these people that are initially criticizing those people get why uh just whirled into these trends and they're like they can't resist because you know how everyone was like, "Oh, MBTI is so [ __ ] stupid."
And then everyone ends up actually talking about it because like everyone's talking about it and you feel like left out, so you just give up.
And uh yeah, you just submit uh into the trend. But yeah, um I will totally do it as a person with a job. Okay. Uh not going to lie, my Korean friend said that too. He hates hyper capitalism stuff. Uh Singaporeans are the kings of queuing. All right.
Yeah. Actually, you know what? When I was in where was that place? It was uh Ugus and it was like it was like a very central mall or something. There was this new fast food store that was opening that day and I saw a huge line. I was like it it was an American fast food store. I I don't remember what brand it was but yeah it was something new that wasn't in Korea yet. And a so big line over there. So it's it's not not just Korea. Not just Korea.
It's business, some trends, and crowds or marketing. Yes. Oh well. Okay. Let's let's try to get into the culture side of it. Like some kind of history over here. So apparently in 1988 when the first McDonald's opened in Abujong, uh it was the lead story on national news.
I mean 1988 that's like a long time ago and McDonald's coming in is pretty big even in my standards in 1988. So a Big Mac set back then cost about 3001 which is like $2. Wow. Inflation, right? Uh which was triple the price of a normal Korean meal at that time. So that means a normal Korean meal was only like 50 cents or $1. But inflation, right? So people lined up because eating a burger was a way to feel globally connected after the Olympics. So you see a little bit of cultural and historical context here, right? McDonald's timed it right after the 88 Olympics where soul was rejoicing and so celebrative towards like, oh, we're now becoming global city and foreigners are finally coming in.
McDonald's just launched its first store in Aku Jang which is like the richest area and yeah like eating a hamburger was we're we're getting go global right so that was 1988 and then in 1999 we got the first Starbucks opening up in Ewa women's university where all the intelligent and fashionable women uh went to and it introduced this third place concept cept it was a premium space to exist outside of home and work. So suddenly everyone wanted to become that stylish person sitting with this green mermaid cup and now we have Starbucks on literally every corner of every district. You'll be super surprised. I've seen so many foreigner friends walk in the streets of Kangnam or Yakam or any kind of office area and they just see like I'm I've been seeing Starbucks in every corner and in every building and I literally went to Starbucks and I'm sitting at a window right now and across me there's another Starbucks.
Yes. So that's a very common scene nowadays and you'll see like threetory buildings of Starbucks. Uh, last time I went to Cheju, like two weeks ago, I saw one of these architectural masterpieces and with a drive-thru and it was a Starbucks, although I just ran in just just to piss. Um, uh, yeah, but anyways. Yeah. So, yeah, that's some cultural history over there.
Starbucks and McDonald's, I'll give that the past. You know, it's 1988 and 1999.
like we were developing back then and we wanted that validation and we wanted to become global citizens. So Starbucks and McDonald's is pretty iconic. Now we proceed into 2016. Well, let's fast forward. Like I'm pretty sure there would have been a lot of trends and all that, but I can't relate to that [ __ ] But 2016, there was the first Shake Shack that la uh that landed in Kangnam.
I remember this because I was in college. I was in university and more than 1,500 people were waiting overnight in the heat. Look at this picture. It's a Shake Shack. Ironically, that Shake Shack is now out of business. Nobody goes there, so it Yeah, it's out of business.
And in 2023, five guys came to Kangnam.
No difference. It broke sales records for the entire Asia-Pacific region in its first week. I remember covering this with Anna, I think. Yeah, we talked about this or something. People were lining up to get that Five Guys hamburger.
And yeah, there of course there's like a lot of YouTubers, but there's actually a lot of passionate people that want to be first and put it up on their Instagram stories and be the first to talk about it with their friends. There are a lot of reporters as well, too. So, it's a mix of all of that. So, yeah, respect to the people who are doing it for their own profession, right? But yeah, sometimes Korea gets overboard on these lining ups and open runs. And you know, if you go to department stores nowadays, if they have a new drop of Supreme or Louis Vuitton or Seline or any of those luxury brands or a new collab with between Uniqlo and Jacmiss or all these high-end brands like people will line up and uh I think 50% more than half of them will be resellers. So, they're doing it for the money. So, valid reason, I would say.
Uh, but there are actually fashionable people, uh, high beasts that want to get their hands on those new clothes. Uh so yeah, I wouldn't say it's not a trend and um the fact that people flock over these new uh drops on platforms like cream and you can actually see the supply and demand, the supply and demand chart goes up up up and the prices just go parabolic. It means that people do like those kind of uh hype beast and trendy outfits, right? So, I don't see the appeal of these things, but I guess it's a fun distraction at the moment. We all do this. Yeah, it's the same for laboo. Uh, what was that stupid thing?
Like those toys, Pokemon cards.
Yeah.
Um, and it's like when the new iPhone comes out, people used to line up for hours for that, too. Yeah. But I Okay.
Not to be discriminative towards trends, but a hamburger and a phone is kind of different, you know? I mean, your life will not change for getting the first iPhone. Uh you'll probably be able to buy it in like 3 weeks as well, too. So, actually, I don't understand why people want it so bad on the first day. Uh unless if they're like tech YouTubers or anything.
But yeah, I think I think like getting dolls or toys or hamburgers is kind of different with maybe iPhones that have a lot of practical usages. Maybe it's the same. I don't know. Um, is Chip isn't Chipotle opening in Korea soon? Yes. I don't know if there's going to be an open run for Chipotle because we've had similar stuff. Yeah, Asian Boss did an episode about these burger chains. It's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. It's quite embarrassing that we're being displayed like this. But again, not all people are like this. Yeah. Half of them are YouTubers, half of them are reviewers or journalists, and half of them are actually jobless people that really want to get that hamburger stuffed in their mouth. Uh yeah.
Okay. PopMart. Exactly. Popart.
So yeah, actually you know what?
So if we go into our culture a little bit, everyone knows about this word, right? It's represented by this one picture. If you come to Korea and you observe the elevator, you will see this in every single elevator. You'll see a bunch of scratches on the closed door.
So that means people are very very impatient and they're in a rush and that is called the bali culture. Bali Bali hurry hurry right so Korea is a society that rebuilt itself at light speed and to us speed is efficiency and efficiency is survival that's just in our DNA now it's embedded and if a trend is hot you got to catch it right now because in the Korean market that trend will be dead and buried by the next month so that's why a lot of people flock to it. There's a bottleneck. Everyone's competing to get the most views, the most clout from it.
And there's also, I think, you know, like, oh, before we go on to the next part. So, to Oh, why am I why am I frozen? Let me There you go. So, this is Palipali, the culture of speed in Korea, right? Buses leave as soon as the doors close. Yeah, you'll experience that. Uh, honking just one second after the light turns green if the car ahead hasn't moved. Yeah, you'll experience that. Shouting your order before even sitting. Actually, I did that two hours ago when I was at uh Sundubu place. I was like I went in the door and the the the service worker was like, "Oh, you can sit over there." And before I even sat, I said like, "Oh, can I get a soi sundubu, please?" And then she was like, "Okay." Okay. And then she went and straight to the kitchen and started making it. So that's how it works over here. You don't even have to sit seat yourself before you order. And this is the top 10 Korean bali habits voted by foreigners. I thought this was pretty funny. So sharing it with you guys. Number one is reaching into the vending machine for the coffee cup before it arrives. So, we have automatic coffee coffee machines with with those uh paper cups. And once we know that the paper cup is going to fall down. So, we put our hands in there. And there's no point in actually grabbing it because the coffee is going to drip down and it's going to take like 10 seconds for the coffee to actually be complete. But, we're just holding on to that cup just to pull it out like a nanocond faster.
Uh I I really relate to that. Well, I don't know why, but it's in my psychology. And then number two, chasing a bus at a bus stop.
Okay. Yeah. When a bus arrives, we don't wait. We go in front of the door and wait and stare at the bus driver until he opens the door for us. Number three, unzipping pants before entering the restroom. Very common. I do that. I unzip my pants when I'm in the elevator before I arrive home. Uh, number four, eating pork belly before it's fully cooked. Yeah, obviously. Ramen, too. Uh, repeatedly pressing the elevator close button until the door shut. Yes. Oh, it's it's such a waste of time and it's like it feels like infinity when the elevator door doesn't shut. Like, it's the most wasted time ever. Um, number six, opening the 3minut cup noodle lid and eating it before they're ready.
Actually, for this one, I think it tastes even better when it's undercooked. So, yeah. Uh, number seven, leaving the movie theater before the credits start to roll. Don't everyone Doesn't everybody do this? I'm sorry to the filmmakers, but like I'm not going to I'm not going to sit there through the credits, you know? If the movie is over, it's over. We see the black screen, you immediately get up unless there's a cookie. Yeah. So smart smart people, you know, the the Marvel and them, you know, always put cookies so that we can sit through the credits, right? Number eight, closing a website that hasn't loaded within 3 seconds. Oh my gosh, if a website doesn't load within 3 seconds and it's a business or it's like whatever it's Nike or I'm not going to go buy that product. No, I'm not waiting 3 seconds. Number nine, brushing teeth while going to the bathroom. Of course, you're going to brush your teeth anyway, so why waste that time when while you're going through the hallway? Like, put the toothpaste on and start brushing, right?
Uh, number 10, eating food purchased at a store before paying it. Oh, yeah. I think this uh eating food purchased at a store before paying it. Huh.
Um, I guess it's for situations where you have to pay upfront. So, you're at the cashier and you get like a sandwich in front of you, you start eating it or something. I don't know. That's kind of messed up. But yeah, I've seen people at grocery stores um drink water before they pay for it and they go up to the cashier and said like, "I was just so thirsty I had to drink it." So, yeah. Uh let's look at your guys's responses. 1 2 5 6 7 8 10. So, it's not only Korean. Um to be fair, I brush my teeth while taking a piss. Yeah, me too. Uh, might just be me, but as a Canadian, I don't immediately press the elevator close button. I wait to see if anybody is coming in case I need to press the hold open button. Yeah, we do that, too. But we just take a peek and if nobody's there, we're like, yeah. Um, number nine is gross. Brushing teeth while going to the bathroom. Why is that gross? Everyone does it here.
Oh, wait till you go to a Korean uh uh company like a a big company like Samsung or I don't know like a big conglomerate where you have hundreds of employees and there's like one big central bathroom in the in each floor after lunchtime you'll see like at least 30 people walking around brushing their teeth and talking to each other and walking to the the bathroom in slippers.
So, yep. No time to waste. Um, yeah.
Okay.
So, C.
All right. So, uh uh uh uh number three, you wear pants. Of course, I wear pants. What do you mean?
Okay. So, that those are some of the examples of the Bali Bali culture.
If we if we go on there are more trends over here. Uh we we experienced it with the culinary class wars as well. There was an open one open run in the digital world. We had uh reservations open for Napoli Mafia's place, the Via Toledto Pasta Bar, and over 110,000 people tried to book at the exact same time, and it crashed the app for 20 minutes. And people were reselling twoerson reservations on the black market for $700 and even tried to flip them double the price. So yeah, you know, like you can sell reservations to other people in Korea now for double the price. Yeah. And then there was this recent event. Yep. It's Pokemon and uh there was a Pokemon Mega Festa in Sunsu recently and over 40,000 people showed up at noon because they wanted a rare Magikarp card.
I don't even know what that is. And it got so crowded that the mobile data networks actually failed and people couldn't even post their photos and the police and fire departments had to be called in to manage the crowd. And yeah, that Magikarp free card was being listed on resale sites on Cream for nearly $300 before the sun even went down.
So yeah, and apparently the event was cancelled because there too many people showed up and yeah, there was a there was a huge huge uh safety risk. So yeah, the event had to be postponed or something.
Whenever I see these kind of things, well, they're kids, so I understand for this case maybe.
But yeah, culturally I think there's the density, you know, like Seoul is a very dense city. We live in apartments. We live all close to each other. Everything happens here. Millions and millions of people living on top of each other in their households with the fastest internet. And like a single viral post can actually trigger a synchronized movement across the city in minutes. And it creates this feedback loop of FOMO, fear of missing out. And traditionally, I hate to say this, but in a collectivist culture, participating in a trend is a way to prove that you're kind of normal and culturally sophisticated.
So, if everyone has watched Culinary Class Wars or Singles Inferno or this certain drama and you haven't tried it, you haven't been to the Napoli Mafia place, you haven't tried Tujonu, unfortunately, you're in the odds there.
You're in the minority and you'll be looked down upon from the majority.
They'll be like, "Bro, you haven't even tried Tujunku yet? What are you doing?"
And then you see you try to be the cool guy and say like I actually think the people that like you know line up and go crazy for Tuchunk are they're the ones that are stupid and they'd be like okay whatever you think cool guy you think you're better than everyone else. Hey it's it's not a big deal. You can basically go to Paris baguette and taste it just like everyone else and talk about it. That's being social. But you try to be that, you know, that lone wolf and think you're better and over everyone else and yeah, you be you. So that's the response you'll get if you look down upon these kind of trends.
So yeah, I I I I do think the unique environment of Soul just definitely triggers a chain reaction uh and puts these trends on steroids. Um the Tuchonu butter dog, now the chaji. So, it's it's it's unique. It's unique.
Yeah. And uh speaking of FOMO though, related to this picture, you know, like we we have this constant FOMO of buying a house here because, you know, in Korea, the housing market has just gone up forever. And if you don't have a house, you're becoming a lightning beggar. So you're feeling relatively deprived.
And now that the house prices are on average $10 million, you can't afford one. So the logic is, oh well, I can't buy a house, but I can definitely buy a $10 cookie or a premium milk tea, so might as well, right? It's like a compensated comp uh compensated consumption for you. And um yeah, I guess people psychologically try to treat these kind of trends as like a small reachable luxury that gives us like a little bit of, you know, a sense of ownership and status in a world that feels just increasingly expensive and out of reach. So at least you can fit in with the crowd. You don't you might not have a house, but you might have tasted a Dubai Dubai chewy cookie.
Yeah. Well, I do all those. Okay.
So, anyways, all I want to say is next time you see a massive line in front of Chaji or five guys in Kangna for a burger or tea, you don't have to think we're all crazy and stupid people. like it's just a community of people that are hyperconnected in a hyper capitalistic society. Uh, city never stops and we just want a little bit of joy in this queue because we can't afford houses and we've been feeling FOMO forever but it's unreachable so might as well compensate with Dubai chewy cookies, right?
So yeah and and the intel in the intellectual way to approach these lines would be we have digital apps now waiting apps. So never actually go in line. Just check the app and wait like queue digitally, right? So yeah, indeed compensated luxury is a huge thing in Korea with everyone wearing logos everywhere. Yes. My advice is always to just wait for the hype to die down before trying. The store is not going to go away. Exactly.
Exactly. That's my take. Yep.
Uh but then also you know like if you are at a company or you go to a team and let's say the MBTI trend has just started and you're so knowledgeable about it and you can talk everything and you can teach everyone about MBTI what they what their MBTI mean you suddenly become an opinion leader or a trends setter early adapter and you become very more uh trends savvy and you know everyone's talking about Chaji looking at their social media apps during lunchtime and they're like oh what's the hype around this like what and they're doing like like that and then they ask you what do you think you know you're like oh I actually tried it around over the weekend and they're like what you already tried it how was it and you be like oh yeah the milk tea was good and the tea smelled like this and everyone's looking at you and they spread read your words to their friends and I heard from my coworker he said like this and that so you become like an influencer I I guess that clout is what people want to some extent right it's superficial it doesn't mean anything but yeah uh yeah so anyways uh that was the news that was the two pieces I brought today about the trends of Chaji and the relative deprivation of the Magic Pass in Lote World. So, I hope you enjoyed those ones and off to the BTS one. Now, before I go on, now this is not going to be in the edited clip of KPC clips, but I've been struggling for the past 30 minutes to pronounce this tea brand name, Chaji, because it's it's very similar to a slang word in Korean that that means dick.
Yeah. Literally, it's the equivalent word of dick in Korean is very similar to the pronunciation of chaji. So, you need to be very very careful when you pronounce it.
I would say Koreans. Uh I would say if you're a foreigner and you you don't know how to pronounce the ch that well uh and come to Korea and uh try to pronounce this and you maybe ask your friend, have you ate, have you tried chaji before? Have you eaten or drank chaji before? and you ask your Korean friend, that would go very wrong.
It sounds like, have you eaten dick before? Have you tried dick? Is dick very delicious?
What's the slang word for? It's it's for dick. So, you know, there are like the dictionary and medical terms like testicle or penis and then you got the slang words like ding-dong or dick, right? So, we have those in Korean too.
Um, I think the most standard word for Korean like the medical biological term would be like or something like that and we have ku which is for red pepper. Um, ku would be like a a cute term but widely used term. But then we go on to like the slang territory and then we have j a j i that jaji that that means like thick.
So anyways, you you would probably have to say chaji milk tea or chaji tea or something like that in order to specify that you're not talking about dick chajias.
Oh my gosh. Thinking of like especially to a to a female. You go to a female friend and say like, "Oh, no."
They give you this bombastic side eye.
Yeah.
Uh, you want to try Chaji?
Okay. Okay.
Yeah.
Uh yeah. So, oh my gosh, it's already been two hours. Should Yeah, should slide through the BTS one pretty quick.
It's 1:00 a.m. in the morning.
Thanks for warning you. Yeah, this is the information you actually need. You know, don't come to Korea and point at the Chaji line and say like, "Oh, Chaji line is so long."
Anyways, I I I I sometimes think I'm I have the uh I have the mental age of an elementary school student.
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Noon time in America. Just chilling, right? It's a good time for y'all Europeans and Americans.
All right. All right. Let's go into the last news of today. Everyone has been waiting for this, right? So, yeah, BTS Mexico, the legends have returned and they just didn't visit Mexico, but they absolutely dominated.
The entire country came to a standstill from the moment they touched down and they proved that the BTS fever is higher than ever. So, first of all, let's look at some clips over here. Oh my god, the Aidang keeps getting louder. So, this is a clip from them in Mexico City. So, wow.
This is phenomenal.
Wow.
The fact that the national traditional folk song is being chanted and sung by international people all over the world in a world tour of a Korean artist in a rotating circle and them singing in Korean is just unheard of. couldn't even think of this happening and I can't even believe what I'm seeing and hearing right now. It is just phenomenal. Nobody else than BTS could pull this and it's beyond I I'm just beyond proud. Like I don't even know what to articulate this feeling is. It It feels like I'm in a simulation almost like I can't even process what I'm seeing.
Zenia, thank you so much for the $20.
Thank you. But yeah, LFG, you know, Mexico is their second home now.
Exactly. You know, over 40K army gathered at the outside stadium. They can fill another stadium, actually. Yes.
I've seen the videos. It's been really crazy. Look at this. Look at the energy over here. Look at this video. Wow.
So look at this.
>> Okay, the cameraman did them a little bad, but you can just feel the energy, right? Wow.
Wow.
Oh my gosh.
Now that's a stadium I'd like to be in.
No offense to to the Coyang fam, but if Busan concert doesn't deliver like that energy, you know, we got to do better.
We can't lose in our home ground. It's going to be very hard to top that energy.
But yeah, did you see those Ajimas, the Mexican Ajimas doing the with their their mouths fully open now? Yeah. Mexico mucho picante.
Exactly. Quoting these words. And then this is them. This is them in the palace, right? We all saw this.
Wow.
This is like a Beatles moment. Look at Wow. Look at the crowd.
>> Look at that gorgeous palace and Jimn's gorgeous hair and be Oh, jungle.
Everyone looks so good. from the Mexican government.
>> Recognition from the Mexican government.
Wow.
>> Thank you very much for coming.
>> Oh my gosh.
>> Thank you. Thank you.
>> Gracias.
>> Much gracias.
>> Gracias.
>> Gracias. Gracias. Much gracias.
>> Wow. So polite, too. JK at the end. Did you see him bowing?
Beatles. Michael Jackson's BTS. Let's go. Yeah. So, as you can see over here, they got a royal invitation and a presidential meeting and they got the royal treatment with an official invitation from the president herself to the national palace, the heart of Mexican.
So, the the Mexican people and yeah, they actually had like a formal reception with the president for I think 40 minutes to discuss the power of youth and culture and yeah, you could just see them being treated as like a cultural ambassador with the diplomatic weight of world leaders than just pop stars. So, big big respect and appreciation towards the Mexican president. I think her name was Claudia uh something. Yes. Uh it was what is it? I want to pronounce her name properly. Right. Mexicoo Claudia Shane Bal.
Claudia Shane Bal. Yes, that's the name of the Mexican president and she's the one that uh said before uh Claudia Shamebound president. She's the one that uh wanted BTS to come additional dates uh and she actually urged the Korean uh ministry of foreign affairs or the president, the prime minister uh to make that happen or something. And yeah, at the end she actually invited them to the palace and gave them a tour and gave them that special opportunity to look over the window at the balcony of the palace and army from all around Mexico gathered and uh look at this scene over here. This is just crazy.
Look at this Mexican army ready for BTS. Look at that site.
So, I don't know. It differs from media report to report. Okay, I'm I'm frozen again. Sorry. There you go. So, yeah, if you look at this crazy crazy site from the balcony, reportedly reportedly um this public square is called Zalo.
Uh over 100,000 fans packed the space.
so densely that the crowd spilled into the surrounding streets and yeah reportedly you know they registered like I I think this is an exaggeration but on local seismographs because of the stomping of the feet and the noise but yeah some people say it was 100,000 some people say it was like 500 uh 50,000 but that doesn't matter because like just witnessing this with your own eyes. Like look at this. It's a massive massive plaza. And yeah, I do think it would be over 100,000.
Holy [ __ ] That is that is crazy. And the fact that not a lot of media reports are highlighting is that this was almost a spontaneous announcement. They didn't pre-plan this or pre-announce it the day before or a week before anything. They announced this on social media five hours before the event. Just 5 hours before and that many people showed up.
It just truly shows you how influential BTS is and how hungry the people of Mexico were to see BTS in person. It was literally under a fiveinut appearance on the balcony and they could only see them as like little pebbles.
They Yeah. But the love that the Mexican army showed is it's going to be cherished forever. This is going to be archived. And Korean people watching this, I've looked at so many comments and they're all like, "Wow, I didn't know BTS was this big.
This is some crazy level [ __ ] This is actually like the Beatles or Michael Jackson. There's no other artist in the world, even if they're like world famous, Spotify top, whatever. They appear on a Mexican palace balcony with the president, that itself is an achievement. But the amount of people that just gathered to see them inside for this, no other than no other artist than the Beatles, Michael Jackson, and BTS could pull this off. I agree to fullheartedly to that sentence. But yeah, Korean people finally finally got the chills and they understand, holy [ __ ] BTS is really big now. They've always knew known about the Billboard Hot Top 100s and the World Tours and the filling the stadiums and all that, but to normal people that don't give a f about K-pop or BTS or whatever, it was always just like, you know, a news report showing like, you know, stadiums and they're like, "Yeah, all K-pop stars do stadium tours and arenas or whatever.
We've seen those kind of footages and yeah, we've heard about K-pop being pretty popular since Gang Nam Style from like 10 years ago. It's been going on for a while. Oh yeah, BTS's might be an BTS is an anomaly from what I heard.
They're super popular, right? But they didn't have like a visual representation of just hitting them directly with stimulation itself.
And uh this one like them seeing like them the the picture the the the optics of it is just perfect. They get the best respect and honor being invited officially to a presidential palace office by the president herself and having the honor to go on the balcony with her and in a plaza a a significant place in Mexico filling that up with 100,000 people yelling like crazy and greeting them just for those five minutes.
Yeah, that site just really changed a lot of minds and I'm very happy because you know um during the Kong Moon performance now this was the triggering part when BTS came back with their Ayang album and their comeback they had a they had a special show with Netflix a live stream at Kangamoon which is also like the equivalent of this plaza in Korea in Soul at the center of of it and the police hyped it up saying like, "Oh, there's going to be 250,000 people gathering for the BTS concert, the show.
So, everybody should be very careful.
So, we need to be uh very, very careful and put all the safety measures we can."
So, police, special forces, firefighters, politicians were all on the edge and we prepared flawlessly about it. And everyone was reporting about it for like a week and two weeks.
And more and more people started getting annoyed by it, saying like, "Oh, it's such a nuisance. It's so uncomfortable, you know, like it's so inconvenient. Why do they have to rent out a public space and do this? It's all for themselves at the end of the day, you know, it's all for Netflix. You know, I don't even care. I want to go to a library. Oh, I had a medical checkup that day. I wanted to go to the palace. I had a wedding there. You know, why do they have to do it there?" you know, why don't why can't they just get a stadium and do it? And then it actually happened. You know, it was grand and it was a very big success, but because of the high control and the highly inflated numbers and the media scaring off people saying that it's going to be like very crowded, people like me who were watching the Netflix live stream at home didn't attend. I decided not to go because I I was afraid that I would be trapped there and I probably not be able to come home until like midnight or something or something might happen. So yeah, a lot of people just decided to pass off on that one offline and and you know like if you see the the individual media or the live streams from YouTubers that were not in not accepted in that Kangamoon stripped area strip, you could go to city hall.
There was a massive gathering there. It all flowed down to Maongdong and a lot of people that wanted to go in were actually rejected by the police and the barricades because they said it was fully uh the capacity was fully, you know, uh charged so nobody else could go in. So yeah, what could have been like a huge huge huge gathering had a lot of multiple factors and a lot of media play, a lot of you know uh restraints and because of that visually it didn't seem as packed and a lot of those haters or aunties or just jobless people who can't just admit that BTS is like a national hero. and cultural ambassador that's bringing so much economic and cultural value to our country. These people were like, "Haha, BTS, they suck." You know, they're all, you know, washed out now. Their songs suck. That's why nobody came. And, you know, everyone said 250,000, but there's only like 10,000 or 20,000. Yeah. Like, I think other idols could pull that off, too. All that fuss for this, you know.
Oh, what was all that for? I feel so bad for the couples that had a wedding there. You know, Hib was just filling up their greed. All these negative buzz went on and on and I can I can say that I was super super angry and I wanted to like reply to every single one of them saying like you don't know [ __ ] about how impactful and influential and how big BTS is. you are the one trapped in your own bubble and you probably are benefiting off of their impact globally.
I don't know like indirectly probably economically because tourism is booming or where you are going out outside of Korea and people recognize Korean people as like uh you know in a positive manner.
Yeah, you're probably getting reaping the benefits of their effort and you're the one that's like spitting on their faces. so disgraceful and so uneducated and so clueless, but you know, like I you're powerless against like those mobs on the the comment section and everyone just like votes up upvotes those kind of comments.
So, I was so so stressed. But after this after this happened in Mexico and this was widely published in the news for days up until now too people are like okay maybe yeah you know like they weren't so off with the numbers and the estimations. Maybe it was the police that was the fault and maybe it was like you know people kind of scared to not go out and you know maybe I misjudged. Of course, those people that were barking, they'd be silent, but I know for sure that they're in their houses and they're like, they don't want to admit it.
They're probably like salty about it.
They're like, "Yeah, but still BTS, you know, it's just, you know, a bunch of girls and yeah, blah blah blah blah."
They're probably doing like that in their houses, but like looking at this, it's just hard to not actually recognize their impact and how big they are and how popular they are. And this is just one country. This is just Mexico and it's one region of it.
And I bet these people didn't even see like the concert footages of like El Paso and Mexico City like them sitting Adidang also Tampa and also like Tokyo Japanese people singing Adidang.
That's crazy.
So yeah, again, I don't even know what kind of world I'm living in right now, but these haters really need to get a life.
I don't know why I froze again, but these haters really need need to get a life, and I'm glad that BTS just proved them wrong. It was a big FU in their faces, and a was just amazing to prepare something like this. He's prepared something in the Spanish language.
Did you miss us?
>> That's so sweet, isn't it?
Adios. Adios.
Mexico mucho picante.
>> Hola. Oh, RM said some words, too.
>> We are much gracias for having us.
>> Oh, look at the crowd. Listen to the crowd.
>> And we can't wait for tomorrow's concert and stage.
Let's have fun.
>> Wow.
>> Wow. Every time he says a sentence, >> the crowd goes crazy.
>> Wow.
So yeah, that's a world star over there.
You know, they really did well to prepare a fully uh Spanish uh reading script and although probably the pronunciation and everything was not to like a very smooth level. It's the thought that matters and the execution itself. It was very cute and it was very heartwarming to see and every every single line I don't even know if they actually heard it on site like what he was saying. It's probably like he says something and they go crazy, you know, right? But yeah, like you could see it afterwards in the video. So the message was sent and delivered. So that was very very sweet of uh Tayong to speak espanol and RM to mix in a little bit of words there. So that's being very respectful giving it back to the fandom. So yeah, this this is the most iconic photo ever.
Look at this. Them looking like kings over there. And look at the crowd. Holy [ __ ] Wow.
This isn't AI. This is not AI.
it. Wow.
This is crazy.
This is like a Time magazine photo or something. A photo of the year.
Yeah. And the president holding their album, their vinyl.
Them looking all sleek, all good.
Oh my gosh. Look at this. Wow.
Wow.
Oh my gosh, this is crazy.
That one Chungu poster.
Okay. Wow.
Wow. I can't believe that so many people came up.
I'm with the mustache over here. Yeah.
Thank you, Mexico. Thank you for being so welcoming and supportive to our our BTS members. Oh, they got a one piece, you know, illustration there. So, yeah.
Oh, why is the camp freezing so much?
Yeah. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mexico, for being so warming and welcoming to the members. And I feel like they would have had a lot of feelings and I think all their anxieties and concerns that they uh addressed during the documentary uh before the comeback that would have all been flushed away with this one single moment. You know how they were like oh we were so uncertain and unsure uh about our comeback whether you know our fans might have left us or not or something like that. Oh yeah. after seeing this I think you know yeah all their negative thoughts would have been flushed away. So yeah I hope um their world tour has just started so I hope uh they receive the equivalent amount or increasing amount of love wherever they go into other countries other cities as well too. Uh yeah, they're coming to Busan in a bit uh in one month. So I'm going to be there on the 12th. I'm very excited for that. And they're going to be in Jimn and JK's home city, which is also my hometown as well. So it's going to be more iconic.
Uh unfortunately, I didn't get their uh actual debut date, but one day before it, it's good enough. Uh probably there's going to be a special stage.
really really hyped for it. Um, this time it was actually pretty easy to get the ticket. Not because it wasn't competitive. I was just skilled, you know. I already did it one time and uh I knew how to do it. I was just very patient. Took a deep breath. I didn't even like spam the clicks. I was just like a sniper mode.
Like, okay, got in the queue. Okay, I was in like 20,000th or something. That means I probably can get floor seats, but I'm just going to sit because I'm an old man and I don't want to like, you know, uh there I I saw some reviews that um a lot of people hold their cameras too much, so it blocks her views or sometimes I'm a tall guy, but I didn't want to take the chances. But anyways, yeah, I got a good second uh floor seat.
I think it's I I I planned out where I wanted to sit. like I looked at all the vlogs and saw like which place has the best view. Um went according to accordingly as I planned. So yeah, I'm going to the concert. A lot of my friends are going to the concert as well too. Tammy is going. Our uh past editor from DKDK, she's going. Um yeah, so I'm very lucky. And oh my gosh, you know, I I'm I'm watching old clips of BTS nowadays, uh, when they were being mentioned or interviewed on like late night shows and stuff. And even then, I I'm like reliving those moments like six years ago, four years ago.
Um, it was unimaginable even then.
Like I thought that was the pinnacle. I thought that was the peak, but yeah, they they just proved everyone wrong and they're just like becoming bigger and bigger and bigger with this comeback. So yeah, they I'm I'm just so glad they shut down all the Kangamoon critics and the aunties. The skeptics are all proven wrong. The debate is officially over.
And I I'm just like very sad that some people in Korea just don't want to admit the success they have and the beneficial effects they are bringing to the country. Um maybe because some of these people are you know struggling in their own manners and uh they are relatively deprived and they feel like you know celebrities are a detached world from them and they want someone to hate on but yeah like these people really not not to BTS.
No, you can't do it to BTS.
Yeah. So, I I think they're the best diplomats in Korean history. And you remember I I told you in the BTS Kangamoon essay video about uh Kimu, the national activist, independence activist during the Japanese colonial era where he made his speech about uh his equivalent to the Martin Luther King speech where he said he only dreams of the infinite power of cultural cultural power.
He doesn't want military power or anything. He just wants Korea to shine like a beacon in the world with its uh cultural uh power and content like this.
And yeah, uh Kimu even appears in uh BTS's song in Adidang. I I forgot which one. Was it fire? But uh yes, I think he'd be very very proud if there is an afterlife.
Yes.
Uh yeah. Um BTS made Korean men more desirable around the world. I don't even care about desirable. Okay, that's a great effect. But it's just like pure representation itself.
Yeah.
Um it I think it elevated like the Asian status as a whole. Not even Korean. a Korean for sure. But yeah, they're just affecting so many young minds and they're shifting the mindsets of different cultures and the breaking all the stereotypes and barriers, language barriers as well too with Adidang, right? People learning Korean. Uh who would have thought that people around the world would learn Korean? a nation that only has like 48 million people in population.
Yeah, that's crazy.
Uh, yep. I'm going to enjoy the Busan show.
This come from the Mexican president that asked the Korean to intervene with BTS to consider adding more consensus in Mexico. Yes, I saw that. Uh, and back then a lot of people I I even heard from the Mexican side that um, you know, some people were criticizing her, but at the end it turned out into a great result.
Yes.
I'm so grateful for Mexico's warm welcome. They killed it.
Yeah.
BTS being BTS. I've spawned. What's up, David? We were just talking about the phenomenal uh greetings in Mexico. You saw this, right?
The crazy plaza appearance of BTS and their Mexico uh leg of the tour and them singing like Adidang and everything all together like Yeah, that's just crazy.
This was karma for BTS auntie's downplaying the Kangamoon concert. Yes.
David loves that he's hot because of BTS.
Am I? Am I?
Oh, it was Aliens. Yes, it was Aliens.
Yep.
David, as Chinese Latina, I can tell you that BTS has raised awareness about Asian cultures in a positive way. For sure. Yep. The shows and the reception in Mexico were fire. Crazy turnout.
Exactly.
Yeah, it's something unfathomable in the past.
Yeah, this doesn't seem real to me.
Uh yeah, speaking of speaking of you know there's uh this new series uh I'll show you so yeah just a little promo here. So, this new show, this uh new CNN original series, >> nice to meet you.
>> Actor, producer, and proud Korean American there.
>> I'm going to South Korea where I was born. Exactly what I remember as a kid to figure out how this small nation conquered the world culture.
>> I saw your move >> size on it >> and it's only getting started.
>> That's going to get people up out of their seat. The producers fuel the movement.
>> All uh all day project >> favorite food.
>> K food.
>> Suck it out. That's savage.
>> Viral beauty trends.
>> Yep. Beauty. K food.
>> Beauty standards and the phenomenon.
>> May 9th on.
>> So it's this is out and you know who else is on it? David Kim's on it. So go check it out. Right. Yeah. It it's crazy how far Korean culture has come and I would say BTS is at the forefront of it.
They paved the way. Definitely.
Yeah. So very very thankful to BTS and all the other contributors as well too obviously that you know appear in this documentary.
Uh Parasite Sai you know K-pop demon hunters are food you know everything.
K everything. Yeah, go ask K everything.
Um, thank you. Thank you. So, I I'm going to be on there. I don't know how how much I'm in there. Maybe I'm all edited out.
Who knows? But it's an honor to be on such a uh a recognizable uh film, a documentary, right? So, yep.
It's a different show from Anna's. Yeah.
Sponsored by Hyundai.
If this wins an Oscar, will you be there? No. No. I wish. I wish. You know, I had a chance though. Um, the producer did say, "Oh, am I supposed to say this stuff?" No. It's probably under NDA. No, actually, you know what?
like I had the chance to meet some of the people that appear in the documentary like the artists because like the filming schedule was very backtoback and I heard like just the day before uh Daniel he met uh you know some artists and I was like if I had asked the producer you know oh can I tag along I could have met some of them probably I've been on a few productions and even if you've been edited out, it's still a great opportunity to have been a part of. Yes, I hope hopefully there's some parts of me. I've already seen myself in the trailer. So, yeah, at least I got that one line.
Uh, in the trailer I say, uh, what did I say? Like, you never know the ceiling or something like that. It's uncharted territory for K-pop.
Yeah.
So, yes, uh BTS indeed is just elevating Korea status to a whole different level and Mexico just proved all the haters wrong and shoved a big FU in their face.
And I am super happy about that. I'm so so looking forward to their next legs in their tour. I'm just wishing for their health and yeah, no no accidents happening or anything. Um, yeah, they they could be very tired, so probably they need some good rest in between. I did see Jyn and Jimn at like a Mexican wrestling game today and Jyn was like having the time of their life. So yeah, I think they're having good times in the middle of their um tours. Yeah, they they were in Tokyo and they were doing a lot of Pokemon stuff. So, yeah, I think they're enjoying the world tour there, too. Like meeting their armies uh in the concerts and in the free time going to the local cuisines and having some chill time and experiencing the culture over there, too. Yeah, it's good for them.
It's good for the fans.
So, more world tours, please. Yes, it's f it's actually leaked that they're als they're going to do an encore stage at uh in Korea. So, that's one more additional date. If you want to, if you had like an emergency and you couldn't attend one of these concerts or your financial status wasn't just good in this timing, you can always uh aim for probably like the end of this year or next year even cuz V already leaked that there is a plan for an encore uh date in Soul. So yeah, there you go.
Mhm.
Yes. All right. Good to see you. And yeah, it's been quite a long since uh long time since I've streamed this. Uh so I'm going to call it a day over here, too. It's almost 2:00 a.m. to Today is a Monday already. So, I got to get up early at 8:00 a.m. to ride the stock market again and pray that my hive stocks rebound so that I don't become a lightning beggar and I don't feel relatively deprived.
But yeah, so it was fun talking to you guys.
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